This razor was found in an urn together with a pair of tweezers. Razors
and tweezers are found regularly in male graves. These were luxury goods
and a clean shaven face was probably a way to express status. So bronze
age men weren't the bearded barbarians as is the popular view of prehistoric
men!

Mould

The mould is made from soapstone. The shape of the razor
is a bit shorter then the original, as I needed the rest of the mould for
a wheel headed pin and small knife.

Casting result

The mould is giving great results. Here is one of the razors
straight from the mould.

Finished razor

Here is the finished razor. The blade is hammered thin
and the pin is curled up, with regular annealing. The latter represents
the neck and head of a swan (which is shown more clear on Scandinavian
examples). The razor is very sharp, sharp enough to pop hairs from my arm.
It's however not yet as sharp as modern razors. Achieving such sharpness
on hard steel is difficult, but even much more difficult on bronze. Personally
I think that they were actually used to cut the hairs while holding the
hairs with the tweezers.